Bengal tigers at GT have roared again. It’s a great pleasure to announce that all five of our Bangladeshi (origin) boys who have attempted, have passed their ECE PhD qualifying exam this time. This is a new record of passing qualifying exam at the first attempt in the first semester! Congratulations folks!

At Georgia Tech, Dr. Satter has been working with Computational Electronics & Photonics Group on lasers and LEDs, and presented his thesis on “Design and Theoretical Study of Wurtzite III-N Deep Ultraviolet Edge Emitting Laser Diodes”. His researches have been published in numerous prestigious journals and conferences, and been awarded patent by USPTO.

Dr. Satter will soon join Intel’s Silicon Photonics group as a research scientist in Santa Clara, CA. Earlier, he was a faculty member at BUET from which he received both his BSc and MSc in EEE in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

BSA@GT extends its warm regards and best wishes for Dr. Satter and his wife Munmun Islam towards their future endeavors and continued success.

Dr. Hossain will shortly join as a Research Scientist in REC Silicon (a division of Norway based company REC) in Moses Lake, WA. REC silicon produces poly silicon and silane gas for solar and electronics industry. Dr. Hossain has been an enthusiastic and active member and also served as the President of BSA@GT community. BSA community extends its heartiest congratulations and warm wishes for Dr. Zahid Hossain, his wife Ms. Zerin and their son Naqueeb, for their continued success and future endeavor.

Congratulations to Khondker Zakir Ahmed, on winning the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, which was held August 11-13, 2014 in La Jolla, California. The title of the award-winning paper is “An On-Chip Autonomous Thermoelectric Energy Management System for Energy-Efficient Active Cooling.”

Thermal management is a key challenge for today’s integrated circuits (IC) operation. Zakir and his team have developed an on-chip thermoelectric energy management system for energy-efficient, on-demand active cooling of integrated circuits. The design is implemented in a CMOS test-chip and tested with a thermoelectric device. The successful demonstration of this control system will fuel innovations in thermoelectric devices, as well as in the architectural techniques to address the thermal challenges of future processors.

Heartiest Congratulations to Dr. Kazi Shefaet Rahman on receiving his PhD in Bio-Engineering from Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Rahman has been a prominent researcher in the field of computational structural biology and molecular dynamics. His PhD dissertation is titled “Modeling and simulation of the structural changes that accompany the gating cycle of the cystic fibrosis trans-membrane conductance regulator anion channel”.

Dr. Rahman will shortly join Bloomberg L.P. in New York to begin his career in computational analysis. Our best wishes and heartfelt felicitations for Dr. Rahman as he continues to succeed and make us all proud.

Congratulations to Dr. Md Atiqur Rahman Bhuiyan on the successful defense of his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering! He will continue his stellar academic career at GT in the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute as a post-doctoral fellow! Best of luck!

Congratulations to Safeer Siddicky on the successful completion of his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering! We wish him the best as he continues his graduate studies at the University of Missouri Kansas City.